Proware EP-3164D-G1S3

16 bay Dual Controller Active - Active iSCSI RAID

Overview

The Proware EP-3164 series RAID subsystem features four Gigabit ports on each controller to increase system efficiency and performance. It features high capacity expansion, with 16 hot-swappable SAS/SATA II hard disk drive bays in a 19-inch 3U rackmount unit, scaling to a maximum storage capacity in the terabyte range. The EP-3164D series also supports Dual active-active controllers which provide better fault tolerance and higher reliability of system operation.

Unparalleled Performance & Reliability

Front-end 8 x 1Gb iSCSI
Supports 802.3ad port trunking, Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
High data bandwidth of system architecture by powerful 64-bit RAID processor

Unsurpassed Data Availability

RAID 6 capability provides the highest level of data protection
Supports snapshot-on-the-box w/o relying on host software
Supports Microsoft Windows Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS)

Unsurpassed Data Availability

Management GUI via serial console, SSH telnet, Web and secure web(HTTPS)
Event notification via Email and SNMP trap
Menu-driven front panel display




Datasheet

Features

Front-end 8 x 1Gb ports support independent access, fail-over and load-balancing (802.3ad port trunking, LACP)
Supports iSCSI jumbo frame
Supports Microsoft Multipath I/O (MPIO)
Local N-way mirror: Extension to RAID 1 level, N copies of the disk
Global and dedicated hot spare disks
Write-through or write-back cache policy for different application usage
Dedicated or shared cache allocation for volume usage
Supports greater than 2TB per volume set (64-bit LBA support)
Supports manual or scheduling volume snapshot (up to 32)
Snapshot rollback mechanism
On-line volume migration with no system down-time
Online volume expansion
Instant RAID volume availability and background initialization
Supports S.M.A.R.T, NCQ and OOB Staggered Spin-up capable drives